Orc/Savage invasion Items

Orc Items

If you missed out on the Orc/savage invasions have no fear, there is a new permanent dungeon "The Orc Dungeon", and a new permanent (heavy) savage spawn.

The Orc Dungeon
is located on the north western side of the mountains that separate Britain from Yew. It has some new items to the scenery and a very TOUGH new monster called "an orc brute" this thing sucks up the damage with little effect, and in the process of fighting will generate random Orcs and Throw them at you.... Literally! lol, its definitely worth checking out even if just to see a Orc being thrown across a room.


1-Orc Bow, a bow of Bluish dark green almost black color. By all appearances it operates like a normal bow, however it is supposed to be a notch better than regular bow. I would rank it at about a bow of Ruin for damage, and it appears to be a bit more durable (long lasting) than a normal bow as well.


It can be used freely against Players, and monsters, even Orcs.

These are only spawning on the Orc Scout, you can recognize an Orc scout in two ways, the first and less common way is to See a green Orc, the second and far more common way is either to hear an Orcish Grunting, and/or hear the snap of a bow string.... *GRINS* then glance at you health bar, if you notice a line of Red that Corresponds with the snap of the Bowstring Congratulations you found one! :)


They are fairly easy to find, ride around the Mainland side of Skara, or between cove and Minoc and you will run into an Orc camp. The camps are in slightly different locations on each shard, but in the general vicinity of Cove-Minoc and the mainland side of Skara.

Now that you have found one, or more likely one has found you, here comes the fun part. Killing it without dying in the process (as I did on the night I took the screen shot for the Orc bow). Orc scouts as you have already experienced shoot you with arrows, their physical attack is about that of an Orc, nothing to worry about, the arrows are a different story. In addition to shooting you with arrows they will aggressively hunt you down, and do not give up chase easily, now here is the kicker, assuming that your stopping to Cast spells on it, or meleeing it, when you get it to about 50% of its life, It will Teleport to a random spot, Hide, and bandage itself, so when it gets out of hiding it will be at nearly full health again! And these little buggers will rinse and repeat that over and over for a while.

If your a mage casting Reveal will help, I laid down some fire fields in Trammel, and they did not work to bring the Orc out of hiding (or damage him) I could clearly see where the Orc was too, as their was 1 spot which had no fire coming out of the fire field.

If your not a mage this is can be difficult, it will be easy to beat them down with melee weapons, however they will teleport, hide and bandage as soon as they are at 50%, if you watch closely you can see where they teleport to, but you will have to have a way to get them out (like casting reveal) you might want to carry some Reveal scrolls.


There is a light at the end of the tunnel if you have a hard time damaging this thing faster than it heals itself, and that is that after so many times it will just stop hiding, and you can hunt it down almost at your leisure (although their bow will still be hitting you).


2-The ORC mask, its a green in color and apparently affords you all the benefits of being Orcish Kin, for starters they wont attack you, you have health coverage, the gym membership, discounts on rental cars....Well they wont attack you while your wearing it :)

There are a few catches tho, putting the Mask on will make you a pal of all the orcs, but it will remove a tremendous amount of Karma by doing it, also should you decide ever have a change of heart and attack an Orc While wearing the mask it will destroy itself.


These are found as occasional loot on Orcish Mages. Unless I had an unusually long string of bad luck when searching, Orc Mages do not appear to be spawning at any of the new Orc Camps, they can still be found at the Orc forts and wandering northern Yew, and the west Briton countryside, and in the swamp/forest area south of Trinsic, basically all the old places you used to run into Orc mages are still valid.

This last one is not really a rare, more of a curiosity. At the new orc camps there is a new kind of Orc, "a frightened Orc" I think as a kid reading D&D choose your own adventure books I ran into something similar, if you let it be everything was fine, but if you attacked it bad things happen to you. Well I wasn't going to attack this one, but I had to... in the name of literature :)

For the most part it just runs from you and wont defend itself, then you kill it, if anything you feel guilty about it afterwards, unless of course your one of those L33T kEwL D00d PKs, then you probably feel a nirvana like sensation over your accomplishment...

3-Evil Orc Helm
These are a lot like the Green Orc masks, they are found as occasional loot on Orc Lords, you loose a TON of Karma for putting one on, but there is a slight twist, you gain 10 Points of strength and loose 10 Points of int or dex (whichever is higher)


Savage Items

Savage spawn area
Located in the swamp that is west of Destard dungeon (same swamp that has the hut that fur occasionally spawns in).As a side note, be very careful about coming to this area on a horse/ostard/nightmare/lama etc, the savage warriors will knock you off your mount and kill it fast, as a second side note Savages get special attacks against Dragons/Wyrms/Nightmares, they can kill one of them in as little as 6 hits.

Bola Balls
found as loot on Orc Bombers, and all male savage warriors. (if your putting together a bola arsenal, try the heavy savage spawn in the swamp west of Destard dungeon).

Bolas To make a bola, you need 4 bola balls (bola balls are found as loot on orc bombers, or male savages) and 3 pieces of cut leather. The minimum tinkering skill is 61.1. When you fail, you will loose some leather but not one of the balls. At the minimum of 61.1 tinkering you will loose around 50 leather for every successful Bola.

Bolas can be used to knock people or npcs (Savage Ridgeback riders) from their mounts. However you only have a small chance of success. If your doing it for PvP and trying to knock a player of his mount bring a LOT of bolas, and be prepared for some disappointments and hard knocks. Unless there is going to be a change in one of the next patches (and their might be) it will be extremely difficult to knock someone from their mount.

I was unable to successfully separate a player from their mount one (long) afternoon on test center, but I received a complimentary can of whoopass for my efforts. Remember the golden rule, it is better to give than receive. This especially applies to whoopass and I was definitely on the receiving end of this one.


If your trying to use bolas to knock ridgeback riders off their mounts to tame them, I would suggest teaming up so there is a bard and a tamer in your group. Provoke the male savages onto the ridgeback riders; you have about a 1 in 4 chance of the male savage knocking the ridgeback rider from its steed. Side note the minimum taming requirement for a savage ridgeback is 78.3

Important, once a ridgeback is tame, you need to jump on it and recall to an Inn and Log out. If your in the game on the same server (and possibly on a different server) when the savage rider dies the mount will most likely disappear with him. Hopefully that is something that will be changed with one of the upcoming patches, but its if it isn't you can still keep your mount if you insta-log long enough for the rider to be killed or re-spawn.

Savage Masks

These are found as loot on Savage male and female warriors, you can see if a particular savage has a mask, and what color it will be simply because they are wearing it. There are 29 Shades available, some shades appear to be more difficult to find than others, I'm still hunting for all 29 shades, so far dark blue seems to be the most common.

Savage Kin Paint
These are made with the Tribal Berry. It requires a cooking skill of 80.1 cooking to make, and some flour (available at any npc bakers) there is no loss of materials for "botched attempts" its either a pass /fail depending on if you have the minimum cooking skill.

Tribal Berry
Found as loot on about 1 in 4 of the female savages.